Michelle De Kretser

Questions of Travel (eBook, ePUB)

Winner of the 2013 Miles Franklin Award

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Set in Sydney, London and Colombo, and taking side-trips all over the world, Questions of Travel examines exactly that: what is it that urges us to see other countries and cultures, and what is it we gain from our fleeting observations of them? The novel's two main characters, young Australian woman Laura and young Sri Lankan man Ravi, are both in search of home - not just where it may be, but what it is. Laura is restless and unfulfilled and spends her youth travelling all over the world before wondering whether home might be right back where she started out from. She returns to Sydney and to the affair she's longed for, but eventually realises home cannot be conjured by other people - it is from within her that she will find that sense of place and belonging. Ravi flees his homeland after a terrorist attack claims his Tamil wife and daughter. He is a refugee in the widest sense of the world - fleeing not only danger in his homeland but the horror in his own heart and the memories that won't let him go. Perhaps Australia is the haven he has been searching for - if he is allowed to stay - but when he is eventually forced to decide, why is his heart telling him to take a different turn altogether? Home, heart, belonging, exile. How do we know when we are home and what does it actually mean?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Allen & Unwin
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781743431979
• Artikelnr.: 39240026

Autorenporträt

Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14. She was educated in Melbourne and Paris. She is the author of three other novels: The Rose Grower, The Hamilton Case (which won the Commonwealth Prize, SE Asia and Pacific region and the Encore Prize), and The Lost Dog, which was longlisted for both the Man Booker and the Orange Prize and received Australia's 'Book of the Year' Award, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, and the Gold Medal from the Australian Literary Society. She lives in Sydney.

Rezensionen

This is a novel unlike any other I have read... It is not really possible to describe, in a short space, the originality and depth of this long and beautifully crafted book. A.S. Byatt The Guardian